On 20/12/14 21:14, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
On 12/21/2014 12:23 AM, Giorgos Pallas wrote:This is an issue on both 4.3.18 (current testing vb version) and 4.3.20 to which I upgraded.There is a problem with installing debian on a new VM. I downloaded jessie's small installer (debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso) and installed debian. The install completed (I did a minimum install: just standard utilities and openssh-server selected at tasksel). The VM rebooted after completing the install and then without any command the VM froze and the disk reads without stopping. I let it over 20 minutes and it was still reading. During that time the VM console was frozen as well as the Virtualbox manager. I killed both and then tried to start the VM again: Both are frozen, showing the dialog box saying: starting virtual machine, and the disk reads without stop. I tried the whole procedure over 3 times: Everytime the same. I even tried to snapshot the machine during the new install. I took during the install several snapshots without problem, but after the dialog of setting up partitions etc I pressed the snap button and the VM as well as the VB manager froze, and the disk started reading without stopping. I don't think its a disk fault (I/O errors etc) because kernel would show something and in addition I tried reading the VM file (vdi) and it is read without problem.How much memory have you allocated to the Guest VM ? -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf |http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
It was 512 MB. I have previously run many times installed debian VMs with that much memory. Of course something may have changed lately, although I have checked of course with atop that the disk was not busy with swap I/O.
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